Our Program Update, July 2020: COVID-19 has acutely demonstrated that everyone needs to live in safe and healthy communities – communities that advance economic opportunity, prevent residential, commercial and cultural displacement, build on local assets, promote...
MHC Updates
Affordable Housing & Community Facilities Know an Organization or Business in Need of Space? According to the 2015 Nonprofit Space Survey Final Report, published in June, many nonprofit and for-profit community-benefiting organizations and small businesses in the...
Grantee Highlight – GES Right to Live Well
Preventing Resident Displacement in Globeville Elyria Swansea Why do we need to power map? Because residents are being involuntarily displaced from Globeville Elyria Swansea neighborhood daily, local schools are 10-25% down in enrollment, and many existing residents...
MHC Updates
Affordable Housing & Community Facilities Shared Spaces At Transit Hubs - How Transit Access And Shared Spaces Go Hand-In-Hand hosted by Denver Shared Spaces and Medici Communities Learn from the incredible collaborative work of DSS partner Mile High Connects on...
The Power of an Organized Community
Community has a central stake and role to play in its own wellbeing, from community participation in climate action to addressing socio-economic distress, and now, to mitigating the multi-dimensional consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. As communities tackle the...
Grantee Highlights
Cultivando works in the Promotora Model across South Adams County to foster and support community-driven affordable housing advocacy and policy solutions. Cultivando Promotoras work to organize and train community members living in mobile home parks and vulnerable...
MHC Partner Highlight – Denver Regional Council of Governments
The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) is one of the nation’s oldest councils of governments and serves the region as a planning organization, technical assistance provider and forum for visionary local governments. Through a strong focus on regional...
Equity Is Action
To the Mile High Connects Community, Like Deya, I too have struggled to find words to express my feelings over the last three months. They started in fear and frustration at the outset of COVID-19, and turned to grief, anger, and sadness in the wake of the murders of...
MHC Updates
Affordable Housing & Community Facilities Affordable Housing Revenue Fund The City of Denver’s proposed Affordable Housing Revenue Fund has taken a major step forward. The proposal, estimated to provide $156 million in revenue over its first 10 years, passed...
Community Member Highlight – Douglas Howey, Colorado Cross Disability Coalition Advocate
In recent years, CCDC volunteer Douglas Howey has been the strength behind a lot of the CCDC transit advocacy. As a physics teacher who uses a wheelchair, he is uniquely equipped to engage in productive discussions about space on the buses and trains. Douglas was...